Reviews, 9-30-2025
I'm back from my much-deserved vacation, and I've listened to some stuff. Wanna know what I thought? I'd hope so, because this is a review blog! First up is: A Day To Remember "Big Ole Album Vol. 1" This sounds like the center of a Venn diagram of Falling In Reverse, 2000s emo-tinged pop punk and (to a lesser extent) modern pop country. The real trick is somehow it's less terrible than all of those things. It manages to concoct a far less annoying, far less nihilistic and marginally less dogshit brew from that vortex of suck. Unfortunately, the starting ingredients guarantee that the potion is still no good, but I respect that they managed to lessen the damage; this could of been a LOT worse (and would have been more interesting had it been). Competent schlock. Nothing more, nothing less. Busta Rhymes "Dragon Season...The Awakening" & ...